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For questions about the development process of independent games, from conception to publication, or issues concerning them. Should not be used to tag a question about an established RPG system (which happens to be indie)

I'm making a tabletop RPG (with some friends) that we plan to put on Kickstarter. Along with releasing the RPG in electronic form, I would really like to have a printing or publishing service so that ...

We are rolling out an RPG system for the fun of it. However, recent tests have lead us to a rather unsolvable problem.
In order to make single combat interesting and hopefully realistic, close-combat ...

The situation is this: I recently designed an RPG system with a group of friends (a sort of mad-lib type system, an improv-type system where you can't say no but just take what the player and/or GM ...

I'm trying to dig up info on a game I played years ago, here's what I think I know:
The name was most likely Challenge.
Made use of premade character cards in some way.
Mark Rein·Hagen may have been ...

My friends and I were taking our first crack at the light-weight cyberpunk game Remember Tomorrow. We were rolling up characters, and we found it really opaque how we were supposed to roll up gear in ...

I've been fiddling around with a game system for some time (ever since the 2010 Game Chef competition) that's based around characters that are shape-shifters. Because of this, characters have a fluid ...

I've read a couple of reviews on rpg.net, seen a few reviews on Youtube, and read two or three actual play reports about Barbarians of Lemuria. My impression is that it's a rules-light game without a ...

The Dust Devils rpg seems very interesting to try; we are, however, quite busy and won't have time to prepare in advance - most likely we'll be learning the rules while we play.
How difficult is the ...

Could someone sum up briefly (or provide a link to a similarly brief summary of), please, the metaplot of Engel, a German-language RPG (whose English translation was published by one of White Wolf's ...

I'm looking for the name of a small, indie RPG that I came across a while ago. The game used tarot-like cards instead of dice. When something in the game needed to be decided, then cards were drawn ...